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Webinar: Use of the Target Plant Concept to Promote Successful Post-Fire Forest Restoration

Presenters: Owen Burney, PhD, Associate Professor and Superintendent John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center, New Mexico State University “Success for any forest planting effort begins with the “Target Plant Concept” (TPC), which is defined as those morphological and physiological attributes of a nursery grown plant that will result in successful establishment and productivity on specific outplanting…
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Webinar: New reforestation practices for post-wildfire landscapes – building early resilience

Presenter: Jens Stevens, PhD, US Geological Survey “This talk summarizes recent research on the conditions under which current standard reforestation practices are no longer tenable, and provides suggestions on how these practices might be modified to improve their success.” To learn more and view a recording of the webinar, click here.
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Summary of Shared Stewardship Agreements

From the Rural Voices of Conservation Coalition: An eight-state summary highlighting current shared stewardship agreements between Western states and the US Forest Service.
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Preparing for wildfires during a pandemic

From Headwaters Economics: “The wildfire season coupled with the COVID-19 crisis will test the capacity and resolve of our disaster management services, healthcare sector, and firefighting forces.” Click here to learn more.
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Wildfire Risk to Communities interactive tool

The new Wildfire Risk to Communities website—developed by the USDA Forest Service in partnership with Headwaters Economics and Pyrologix—offers maps and data about community wildfire risk nationwide. Data are available at the community, county, and state levels for all 50 states. Visit https://wildfirerisk.org/ to start exploring.
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Ecosystem management applications of resource objective wildfires in forests of the Grand Canyon National Park

From the Ecological Restoration Institute: “To learn more about the effectiveness of managing wildfires to meet restoration goals, ecologists at the Ecological Restoration Institute have been working to better understand the ecological outcomes of wildfire applications and the conditions under which practitioners can expect beneficial results. A new article in the International Journal of Wildland Fire contributes to this…
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Organizational Learning from Prescribed Fire Escapes: a Review of Developments Over the Last 10 Years in the USA and Australia

Prescribed fire escapes continue to challenge most fire and land management agencies and many communities. This article considers the issue from knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) perspectives. We review organizational initiatives and the literature that have developed over the last 10 years to support learning from escaped prescribed fires, then use this to evaluate…
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Fire Impacts on Water Quality Across the West

Read: Post-fire water-quality response in the western United States Rust, A. J., Hogue, T. S., Saxe, S., & McCray, J. (2018). Post-fire water-quality response in the western United States. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27(3), 203. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17115 Read: Evaluating the factors responsible for post-fire water quality response in forests of the western USA Rust, A.…
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Fire Impacts on Streamflow Across the West

Read the publication here. Saxe, S., Hogue, T. S., & Hay, L. (2018). Characterization and evaluation of controls on post-fire streamflow response across western US watersheds. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(2), 1221–1237.
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Findings from 2013 West Fork Complex fire in Colorado– Forest fire impacts on aquatic ecosystems and recovery

Read the publication here. Rust, A. J., Randell, J., Todd, A. S., & Hogue, T. S. (2019). Wildfire impacts on water quality, macroinvertebrate, and trout populations in the Upper Rio Grande. Forest Ecology and Management, 453, 117636.
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